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Gluten Free Vanilla Cake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting

This gluten free vanilla cake with light and fluffy coconut cream cheese frosting and real coconut shavings is straight out of my dreams. This post contains affiliate links; this means if you purchase an item linked, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Click here to learn more about my disclosure policy.

Gluten free vanilla cake with…

I’m usually “not a cake person” but I saw a picture of this cake coated in coconut shavings last month and have been craving it ever since so here we are.
Coconut. Cream. Cheese. Frosting.
The fact that I made this cake for no reason other than to satisfy my craving is about as extra as it gets and I’m not even mad because it was delicious.
It probably won’t last the week.
Now that I’ve overshared, let’s talk details. This gluten free vanilla cake is made gluten free with (can you guess?) Bob’s Red Mill’s gluten free flour. It still amazes me how seamless this flour works when baking things as delicate as cakes and cookies.
It has a very traditional vanilla cake base with an extravagantly rich cream cheese frosting whipped with a dash of coconut essence.
Basically, this cake is like a light and creamy, tropical flavored, wintery looking, cloud. And it’s gluten free.

Must have ingredients & tools

Must have might be an exaggeration but these ingredients and tools were pretty darn essential to me in baking this cake:

Let’s Do Organic Shredded Coconut: you could use any shredded coconut brand you like, I’m a big fan of getting it in bulk at my local food co-op but this brand is also great because it’s organic and unsweetened

Parchment Paper Rounds: these are a life saver and a must have when baking cakes. if you don’t want to splurge on these, before I had them I would just use a pencil to trace a circle with the baking pan and cut out rounds from normal parchment paper. do what works for you!

Offset Spatula: cake bakers already know how essential this tool is when frosting like a professional. enough said!

Coconut Flavor: I never thought I would be buying a jar of something called “Coconut Flavor” or telling readers it’s a “must have ingredient” but here we are. if you really want the people eating this cake to feel like they are on a beach drinking out of a real life coconut, this stuff is probably the closest you are going to get. unless you’re actually on a beach, in which case, you win.

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